Womanhood as Duty (though not to be written about as such or otherwise by women, but only by Hawthorne).
Womanhood as Duty (though not to be written about as such or otherwise by women, but only by Hawthorne). ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne is notorious for complaining in a letter to one of his publishers that a “damn’d mob of scribbling women” was stealing his audience. Elsewhere, he referred to women authors as “ink-stained Amazons” who were […]